#but then you hear about the common adaptation and depictions of those charas

[icharchivist]

having read Dracula last year really made me just downright allergic to hearing about Dracula’s adaptations, i was watching a video about the tropes of the horror genre the other day and the guy confidently started to talk about the “Madonna/Whore” trope by illustrating it with Mina and Lucy because “Mina is virginal despite her attraction to the count and Lucy is a whore because she plays with multiple men and fucks the count”, while also throwing a totally unnecessary “also Jonathan is useless in this story it makes you wonder why he’s a main character” and i almost turned it off like “yeah lost absolutely all credit here”. and i wouldn’t be as mad if the youtuber had specified that it was only in the movie and different in the books but, when there were movies adapted from books doing things differently in the list, he would mention it, he just didn’t on Dracula so i was just oh. oh 🔪

#every single one of those statements got under my skin it's unreal #i wouldn't even say i came out of reading dracula by being super invested or anything #but then you hear about the common adaptation and depictions of those charas #and the natural outrage of 'what the fuck was that choice' makes you invested whenever you want it or not #for the record Coppola: for having named your adaptation by saying it was the author version for realsies: it's on fucking sight #bc it's the version the youtuber was talking about #and i'm almost certain he didn't bother to check if it was different in the source material #bc Coppola bragged so much about his inaccurate movie being the most accurate adaptation #takes a deep breath. Anyway Dracula Daily starts today! #have fun discovering a classic of literature that will have you in full blown rage everytime you hear of its adaptations! #ichatalks